“…In this mediastudies.press edition, Jansen’s prescient autopsy of AI self-selling—the rhetoric of the masculinist sublime—is reprinted with a new introduction. Now an open access book, “What Was Artificial Intelligence?” …”

“…Such figures, teachings and traditions (including the religions of ‘Judaism’, ‘Christianity’ and ‘Islam’; ‘Hinduism’, ‘Buddhism’ and ‘Taoism’) are understood as, at their most sublime, not final destiny and the end of the road, but signposts to a horizon of ultimate silence. …”

“…The author brings to light the pre-eminent forms of our relationship with the past through an analysis going from historiography to philosophy - from Pierre Nora, Carlo Ginzburg, Lynn Hunt to Hayden White, Jacques Derrida, Frank Ankersmit; from the New Cultural History and the histoire de la mémoire to the narrativism and to the philosophies of the historical sublime. Going beyond speculation, it is perhaps possible to aspire to a new alliance between historical and philosophical thought, to delimit a “middle space” between the unstructured praxism of a historiography without philosophy to the excessive idealism of a philosophy without history…”

“…* Art, pleasure and beauty * Music, literature and painting * The role of gender in taste and food * What is art and who is an artist? * Disgust and the sublime Each chapter discusses important topics and thinkers within art and examines the role gender plays in our understanding of them. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Sobre el concepto de metafísica de lo bello -- Sobre las ideas -- Sobre el correlato subjetivo de la idea -- Diferencia entre la idea y su manifestación -- Contraposición entre ciencia y arte -- Sobre el genio -- Sobre el fin de la obra de arte -- Sobre el componente subjetivo del placer estético -- Sobre la impresión de lo sublime -- Sobre el componente objetivo del goce estético, o de la belleza objetiva -- Sobre la arquitectura y el arte de canalizar las aguas -- Arquitectura de jardines y pintura de paisaje -- Pintura de animales -- Pintura de historia y escultura (con un apunte sobre la belleza, el carácter y la gracia) -- Sobre la relación entre la idea y el concepto -- Crítica de la alegoría -- Sobre el arte poético -- Sobre la música.…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Sobre el concepto de metafísica de lo bello -- Sobre las ideas -- Sobre el correlato subjetivo de la idea -- Diferencia entre la idea y su manifestación -- Contraposición entre ciencia y arte -- Sobre el genio -- Sobre el fin de la obra de arte -- Sobre el componente subjetivo del placer estético -- Sobre la impresión de lo sublime -- Sobre el componente objetivo del goce estético, o de la belleza objetiva -- Sobre la arquitectura y el arte de canalizar las aguas -- Arquitectura de jardines y pintura de paisaje -- Pintura de animales -- Pintura de historia y escultura (con un apunte sobre la belleza, el carácter y la gracia) -- Sobre la relación entre la idea y el concepto -- Crítica de la alegoría -- Sobre el arte poético -- Sobre la música.…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note to the Reader -- Introduction -- 1 "Fear Death by Water": The Postman Always Rings Twice and the Frauds of Memory -- 2 Myth in the Mirror of History: The Rules of Fate and the Responsibilities of Choice in Visconti's Ossessione -- 3 Grotesque Doublings and the Dangers of the Sublime: Poe's "Never Bet the Devil Your Head" -- 4 Fellini's "Unoriginal" Scripts: The Creative Power of the Grotesque -- 5 India through the Looking Glass: The Narrative Heritage of the West and Antonio Tabucchi's Notturno indiano -- 6 "A Cinema of Quotations": Nocturne indien -- or, How Alain Corneau Filmed Antonio Tabucchi's "Night" -- 7 The Writer in the Looking Glass: Jorge Luis Borges's "Tema del traidor y del héroe" and the Ambivalences of the Uncanny -- 8 From Icon to Simulacrum: Bertolucci's La strategia del ragno and the Urban Labyrinths of the Uncanny -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Kreisel -- Mapping the "invisible region, far away" in Dombey and Son / Adam Grener -- How we might live : utopian ecology in William Morris and Samuel Butler / Benjamin Morgan -- From specimen to system : botanical scale and the environmental sublime in Joseph Dalton Hooker's Himalayas / Lynn Voskuil -- "Infinitesimal lives" : Thomas Hardy's scale effects / Aaron Rosenberg -- Electric dialectics : Delany's Atlantic materialism / Monique Allewaert -- Satire's ecology / Teresa Shewry -- Afterword : "they would have ended by burning their own Globe" / Karen Pinkus…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Los sabores de lo lejano -- El triunfo de lo sublime: 1. La imaginación del hombre -- 2. La inspiración del agua -- 3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Aristotelian akrasia, weakness of will and psychoanalytic regression MICHAEL STOCKER with ELIZABETH HEGEMANEmotional agents NANCY SHERMAN; Moral authenticity and the unconscious GRANT GILLETT; Sexuality; Freud on unconscious affects, mourning and the erotic mind AMLIE OKSENBERG RORTY; Love and loss in Freud's Mourning and Melancholia: a rereading JENNIFER RADDEN; Lucky in love: love and emotion MICHAEL P.LEVINE; Civilization; Sublimation, love and creativity MARGUERITE LA CAZE; Freud and the rule of law: from Totem and Taboo to psychoanalytic jurisprudence JOS BRUNNER…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Seismic encounters and the acoustic sublime -- 2 The atmosphere as a planetary commons: -- I. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Eloquent Bodies: Rhetoricising the Symptoms of Love in the English Epyllion -- Part III Poesis: Art’s Prisoners -- 7. Philip Sidney’s Sublime Self-authorship: Authenticity, Ecstasy and Energy in The Defence of Poesy and Astrophil and Stella -- 8. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Philosophy, an introduction / Ewa Domańska -- On the metaphilosophy of history / David Carr -- White's "new Neo-Kantiansim": aesthetics, ethics, and politics / Frank Ankersmit -- Hayden White and the crisis of historicism / Herman Paul -- Narrative, an introduction / Frank Ankersmit -- Narrative persistence: the post-postmodern life of narrative theory / Nancy Partner -- "Nobody does it better": radical history and Hayden White / Keith Jenkins -- Metahistory as Anabasis / Andrew Baird -- History: myth and narrative: a coda for Roland Barthes and Hayden White / Stephen Bann -- Discourse, an introduction / Frank Ankersmit -- "The burden of history" forty years later / David Harlan -- The rhetorical dialectic of Hayden White / Allan Megill -- Does the sublime price explanation out of the historical market? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Landscape in the Soviet and Russian Road Movie / Landscape of the Mind: The Indifferent Earth in Werner Herzog's Films / Visions of Italy: The Sublime, the Postmodern and Apocalyptic / Landscape in Spanish Cinema / Landscape and Irish Cinema / The Ownership of Woods and Water: Landscapes in British Cinema 1930-1960 / Filming the (Post-)Colonial Landscape: Claire Denis' Chocolat (1988) and Beau travail (1988) / Landscaping the Revolution: The Political and Social Geography of Cuba Reflected in its Cinema / Landscapes of Meaning in Cinema: Two Indian Examples / The Geography of Cinema-Zimbabwe / Crises, Economy and Landscape: The Modern Film Face of New China / Japanese Cinema and Landscape / A Version of Beauty and Terror: Australian Cinematic Landscapes / Battlefields of Vision: New Zealand Filmscapes / The Landscapes of Canada's Features: Articulating Nation and Nature / Science Fiction/Fantasy Films, Fairy Tales and Control: Landscape Stereotypes on a Wilderness to Ultra-urban Continuum…”

“…Numerous photographs and drawings of ancient Near East origin illustrate and authenticate this provocative and controversial interpretation of Solomon’s sublime song…”

“…Consacré aux Comiques, cet essai aménage une promenade dans les Lettres et les Arts, d’Alphonse Allais à Marcel Duchamp, en passant par Charlot - mais aussi du politique au poétique ou de l’incongruité au sublime. Car la veine comique s’entremêle à d’autres, qui l’exaltent. …”

“…He begins with the history of portraiture, from the early work of Egyptians and Greeks to the sublime treatment of light and subject by artists such as Caravaggio, Rembrandt, and Vermeer. …”

“…Anna Dolfi started from questions like these in devising a book of great novelty and suggestion which, between nocturnes and music, wonders how literature, painting, cinema, opera, popular traditions and songs have narrated about blindness and vision, obsession and fear, or said nights were "tender", desperate, sublime, mysterious and mystical, told about nights of 'sickness', of repairing nights, white nights and sleepless nights, when the attempt is to resist while creating in order to challenge the breaking of dawn. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The invention of place: Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub's Moses and Aaron / Jacques Aumont -- Between setting and landscape in the cinema / Martin Lefebvre -- Toward a genealogy of the American landscape: notes on some landscapes in Griffith (1908-1912) / Jean Mottet -- The course of the empire: sublime landscapes in the American cinema / Maurizia Natali -- Asphalt nomadism: the new desert in Arab independent cinema / Laura Marks -- The inhabited view: landscape in the films of David Rimmer / Catherine Russell -- Sites of meaning: Gallipoli and other Mediterranean landscapes in amateur films, c. 1928-1960 / Heather Nicholson -- The presence (and absence) of landscape in silent east Asian films / Peter Rist -- From flatland to vernacular relativity: the genesis of early English screenscapes / David B. …”